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A (Virtual)sit-down with Andrea Chang and her brainchild BrainGig

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Most entrepreneurs go into business for the incredible experience or with aspirations of financial freedom – but very few go into it with a benevolent agenda like Andrea Chang. OK, quasi-benevolent. The technology/idea Andrea invented, BrainGig, helps connect individuals and teams with much-needed funding opportunities.

When Andrea saw the disconnect between existing funding opportunities and individuals working on under-funded projects she took the ‘Steve Job’s'-style approach – “I have an app for that.” For the last year her website has been helping individuals studying and working in the arts, sciences and humanities by connecting them with grants, fellowships and residencies.

Like many individuals breaking into the entrepreneurial business Andrea has an eclectic background; one that includes an education at the Harvard Business School, the University of California and Georgetown, in addition to real-world work experience in business development and as a financial analyst.

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How is it like during the first hour when your site is on top of Hackernews

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A tweet led to an article, which was fortunate to be on Hackernews. The above two-minute video is a cut of how my site experienced the traffic during it’s initial first hour on Hackernews.

And yes, NSFW is a service I run. It’s been giving my site a run for it’s traffic for quite a while.

Desingineer – the mythical person every Startups are looking for

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“Desingineer” -> mythical person startups are looking for who can do UI, UX and also excellent front-and back-end coding.

That was a tweet from the Chris Dixon.

Of course, many a founders who have also asked me, keep saying, “we need a designer who can code in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and Python/Ruby.” My usual answer is, “you’re looking for a genius, you should try splitting it into (i) a designer who does HTML, CSS (ii) a programmer and (iii) perhaps even a separate Javascript coder.”

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Social Entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham Disrupts the Period Industry

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Arunachalam Muruganantham is a social Entrepreneur who decided to disrupt the period industry, specially for developing countries like India, where cost of sanitary napkins is not affordable to most women. He says that only 7% of the Indian women uses the modern-day sanitary napkins and his target is to make the remaining 93% have access to really cheap sanitary napkins. Read more about his journey or visit his website.

Here is a Interview, by BlogAdda, of awesome man.

Robotics as advertisement platform

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Went to Jaaga (photos) today to greet the “Geeks on a Plane”. I did a quick video talk with the guy (Shadab) behind ‘Shady Robotics’, who plans to use Robotics as a platform for Advertisement.

Entrepreneur Interview Series: A Sit-Down with Screenius genius co-founder Seth Cohen

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Screenius may sound like the ominous description of an evil-genius iPad app hell-bent on world domination — but it’s far less maleficent than that. Screenius is a newly-launched iPad app that is joining the ranks of Angry Birds, Doodle Jump and Pocket God.

Screenius is another infotainment tool — one that helps you funnel your video choices through its ‘video valet’ services. This video-funnelling tool reduces the ridiculously-large amount of online video choice and whittles it down to a bearable size to offer you just two choices.

Quite genius if you think about it. If you were to go to a Ben and Jerry’s and stare at their 75+ flavors your eyes would glaze over as you tried to choose. Go to McDonalds however and your choice between their simplistic Chocolate or Vanilla is practically child’s play. “People can be paralyzed by too many choices,” points out Seth Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Screenius.

Screenius is more than just a video-viewing app though. It’s an intelligent app that learns your tastes as you go. If you watch TED Talks and The Colbert Report clips regularly, it won’t pop-up with Justin Bieber’s new Christmas hit or Jersey Shore reruns (both of which YouTube erroneously suggested to me last week, shudder). In addition to learning your likes the app includes review posting, sharing, and short menus for video browsing.

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Online Film Festival : Spirit Enlightened

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You are invited to yet another online Film Festival : Spirit Enlightened – the festival that traces the spirit which has led the humanity forever and is in the midst of birthing new womb – new life through us.

The story of spirit, divine, enlightenment, healing – from storytellers and evolutionaries across the world, unveiled at this open film festival presented by Culture Unplugged Studios.

How to react to “You’ve Been Hacked!” for newbies

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“You’ve been hacked.” This must be the most feared sentence your IT guy can deliver to you, especially if you do most of your business online. It is even worse you hear it from a customer first. Your first reaction should not be panic, but you do need to react quickly. It will cause you some short term harm, but it is not life threatening.

As an online entrepreneur you will learn many lessons as you build your business from nothing and dealing with hacking is a key one. Being hacked is almost becoming a way of life like auto theft; there’s a high chance it will happen to you one day. Even Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook found his own account hacked in early December 2011. In June 2011, Citbank found that 200,000 customers had their private details passed to a hacker. Sony was hacked earlier this year as was Google in China; even Gmail isn’t immune.

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Indian School introduces iPads for Students

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JustRemindIt App is a helpful Band-Aid solution for Alzheimer Epidemic

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Some creative Silicon Valley professionals branch off on their own to become entrepreneurs by starting their own tech venture. Aditya Kothadiya did exactly that, twice.

As a founder of Shopalize and JustRemindIt, Aditya is riding entrepreneurial journey twice. This enterprising individual’s newest venture JustRemindIt has created a simple and yet brilliant application: a service that sends automatic reminders via Phone call and SMS to others. It also provides recurring reminders, contact lists, templates, an iPhone app and lot more functionalities.

If your interest is piqued – our readers have a special coupon code “BRAJ20OFF” to get 20% off on the first three months of billing periods. The coupon will expire on Tuesday 20th December 2011. Read the full article →